I was delighted to be able to have a chat with Jasmine at the PiWars event in Cambridge. Jasmine was on a visit to the UK to celebrate her Grandmother-in-law’s 100th birthday but was also able to visit a large number of maker-related events! Jasmine is the “keeper of the hounds” at Tindie, managing the Tindie community and promoting the Hackaday Prize.

Thanks as ever to Robert Nixdorf for help with the editing and sound. Also the band of the US Marine Corp for turning up in my kitchen to make the theme music which is also available royalty free on YouTube.

Bricolage is a podcast for makers, and it returns today with episode 6. I did toy with the idea of changing the season number but thought better of it.

We’ve managed to blow the dust off the microphones and recording equipment, we found a building where a number of makers were being held (not entirely against their wills) and we managed to record the things some of them said and edit them into something you can listen to!

Please do tell others about this podcast, like and/or subscribe on Apple Podcasts or wherever else you can find it. No I don’t have some RSS feed thing. I need to get a better website I guess but that costs money I can’t spare right now (sorry), as this podcast really is a hobby.

In this episode I talk to my friend Lucy Rogers better known as Dr-Lucy-Rogers usually said in one breath. She is a fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers. Lucy is known for being a strong presence in the maker scene and for her work in broadcasting. She was a judge on the last 3 series of BBC Robot Wars. Recently she embarked on the founding of a guild, the Guild of Makers, an organisation that supports the growth of the industry related to makers and providing them with support and opportunities to build a community together.

We met at the Pi Wars event at the Cambridge Computer Laboratory on a sunny Saturday in late April 2018. The 2019 event has already been confirmed and you can get dates and more info by joining their mailing list. The event was very well attended, with teams of makers of all ages as well as school children running their Raspberry Pi brained robots around a series of 7 challenges. It’s with great thanks to organisers Mike Horne & Tim Richardson (and their sponsors) for putting on the event and allowing us access as press (got our own room and everything).

This episode was recorded and edited by Robert Nixdorf and Dominic Morrow (who is I’m). The music in this episode is provided Royalty Free by the Band of the US Marine Corp (oorah). It is a Morrow Works Pangolini Studio production for the internet.

The basic premiss of this new podcast flavour or segment or… something, is that me and Paul (and maybe other people in the future) go, with a pocket of loose change, to a flea-market (or boot sale or whatever) and buy a few tools. We then do no research and using only our own vague knowledge and intuition we talk about them.

The picture above (is the best picture I have) of the tools we got (don’t worry there are more not so good ones later). I suppose this is a sub project of @toolotheday

In this new episode of Bricolage, a podcast for makers, I speak with Nick Zammeti of NZ Woodturning Co and Makers Central. Nick was very welcoming and let me have a look around his workshop where he and his son Charlie film his YouTube channels.

Nick is also behind the upcoming Makers Central event at the NEC in Birmingham in 5th & 6th May 2018 which will include lots of varied making including electronics, robotics, woodworking and lots of big name YouTube makers. In this show we mention lots of topics and makers including: